BNP and other nationalist votes
An extraordinary General Election that wiped out Theresa May’s Conservative majority also saw the electoral eclipse of the BNP and the English Democrats, none of whose candidates even came close Continue Reading →
Category Archives: General Election 2017
Tory gamble fails
Early results have confirmed the H&D team’s suspicions that this UK general election would prove a personal disaster for Prime Minister Theresa May. We shall tomorrow be publishing our analysis of Continue Reading →
Corbyn is right: the war on terror isn’t working – but we should also drain the swamp
Amid predictable fake outrage from his Conservative opponents, Jeremy Corbyn – no friend of H&D! – has dared to tell the truth. As election campaigning resumed today (following several days Continue Reading →
Millwall and Blackburn fans contest election
An election that has been otherwise tedious (so far) is enlivened by two candidates representing fans of Millwall and Blackburn Rovers, contesting otherwise safe Labour constituencies. In Lewisham East, the Continue Reading →
Nominations close for General Election
[spacer height=”20px”]Nominations closed at 4 pm on Thursday for next month’s General Election. The National Front decided some time ago not to contest this election, so the main nationalist party Continue Reading →
‘Liberal’ thought police crush local democracy in Bradford
Former MP David Ward has been banned by the national leadership of the Liberal Democrats from contesting his old constituency Bradford East at the General Election on June 8th. Ward Continue Reading →
Election politics – Pakistani style!
Regular H&D readers will be familiar with the electoral saga of Manchester Gorton, where veteran Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman died on February 26th causing a parliamentary by-election which was Continue Reading →
Arron Banks stands aside in Clacton as part of long-term plan for post-UKIP movement
Former UKIP donor Arron Banks has announced that he will not after all be standing at the General Election in the Clacton constituency. Banks had earlier planned to stand against Continue Reading →
Farage flies home: last chance for UKIP?
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is flying back to London from his Adriatic holiday, after Theresa May surprised the nation by calling a snap General Election for June 8th. Farage’s Continue Reading →
Does Theresa May believe in anything?
Prime Minister Theresa May today called a General Election to be held on Thursday 8th June. Technically this will require a two-thirds majority in the House of Commons, but we Continue Reading →